Grace Ioppolo, FSA
@ProfShakespeare
Professor Emerita, University of Reading; Director: http://www.henslowe-alleyn.org.uk; Shakespeare, drama, manuscripts expert.🇺🇸 Rep: @doujohyou @pew_literary
A young 18th-century student practiced penmanship by copying out names in an indenture (now @UkNatArchives) on the verso. The student eventually wrote, “Blockhead” a few times and finally wrote, “I am a Blockhead” in a neat, calligraphic hand!
The opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics was 13 years ago today in London; what a wonderful time for our city and country that was.
St George's flags are flying in Downing Street for the Lionesses. Three finals in a row; keep making us proud ladies xxx
The #WordOfTheDay is ‘brouhaha.’ ow.ly/nfTZ50Wvjz0
A lovely film showing the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, where the Summer Festival brings Shakespeare to life outdoors. London, 1955.
Christopher Robin was putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen. He brushed the honey off his nose, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look Ready for Anything. ~A.A.Milne #summerholidays
"Here I painted myself, Frida Kahlo, with my reflection in the mirror. I am 37 years old and this is #July, 1947. In Coyoacan, Mexico, the place where I was born". The inscription on Frida's Self Portrait with Loose Hair, 1947 #WomensArt
Somerset House #London 1755. Named for the Duke of Somerset, the Lord Protector to the boy King Edward VI. Building commenced 1546-7. Somerset was committed to the Tower in 1548, pardoned, committed again in 1549 on charges of High Treason and was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1552.
London 1572 in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabethan #London by Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg. (British Library)
Digging up the remains of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Thomas More, John Fisher and Lady Jane Grey, all of whom who were imprisoned and beheaded at the Tower: smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the…
Sometimes you don’t want entertainment - you want validation. #CalvinandHobbes #PanderToMe
Mary I married Philip of Spain #onthisday in 1554. The marriage took place at Winchester Cathedral, and Mary insisted that Philip receive the title of King Consort. All official documents bear their joint names. Mary I would have her coronation in October of that year and was the…
If you visit the Treasures gallery @britishlibrary, you can view our newly-acquired Arma Christi manuscript. And you can read more about it in this blogpost: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…
Stonehenge boulder debate settled, scientists say bbc.com/news/articles/…
Have you ever wondered how it feels to be inside the Abbey, early morning on a summer’s day? Ambient Abbey is a video created as a meditative and reflective resource to experience the atmosphere at the heart of the Abbey. Watch now on the Abbey’s YouTube account:…